San Mateo Student Who Fell in Vancouver on LSD

Mercury News- A 17-year-old San Mateo high school student was under the influence of LSD when he plunged to his death during a trip to Canada in June with teachers and fellow classmates, a British Columbia coroner's report said Friday.

Unbeknownst to adult chaperones, Daniel Cho and two friends took the drug while they were on a bus from Seattle, Wash., to Vancouver, British Columbia, the coroner said. The boys were with more than 100 other Aragon High School students headed to Canada as part of a musical exchange program.

When the group made a stop at the Capilano Suspension Bridge, a popular tourist spot in North Vancouver on the evening of June 6, Cho climbed over a 4-foot-high fence and fell 100 feet into a ravine below.

The coroner has ruled his death an accident, and Canadian police won't file any criminal charges in connection with the case.

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family," said Scott Laurence, superintendent of the San Mateo Union High School District. "It was a very sad, tragic event."